Chants of “No TPP” have been heard throughout the Democratic National Convention.
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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, longtime friend to both Bill and Hillary Clinton, got crosswise with another powerful Clinton friend when he suggested Tuesday that Hillary Clinton might revert to her previous support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership once in office.
Mr. Todd agrees – and noted most media covering the Clinton campaign agree – that Mrs. Clinton will defy her campaign pledge and ultimately vote for the deal. At the GOP convention last week in Cleveland, Donald Trump lambasted trade deals like TPP and said they’d “strip our country of its jobs and wealth”. Bernie Sanders and his supporters. Tim Kaine, was himself an outspoken proponent of TPP until just days ago, when he made a private commitment to the Clinton campaign to oppose it for the purposes of joining the ticket.
Supporter for former Democratic Presidential candidate, Sen. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said Mr. McAuliffe was wrong.
The details of any trade pact should be clear before making a judgment, but there are several reasons why TPP should be supported.
Signs and pins reading “No TPP” and “Stop TPP” are clearly visible in the convention arena and in downtown Philadelphia this week, and the excitement surrounding the issue isn’t likely to die down anytime soon.
Wisconsin, with its large manufacturing base, is a state in which trade issues resonate.
The politics of trade have roiled both Democrats and Republicans this year.
Matthew LaRonge is a Sanders delegate from Stevens Point who said he has worked on behalf of Buchholz.
Protesters shouted “No TPP!” at Kind as he spoke with reporters afterward and followed him down the hallway.
“We start to lose jobs”, he said. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has indicated he favors the trade deal but says he doesn’t see where the votes are to pass it this year. The deal forms a cornerstone of Obama’s attempt to increase USA influence in Asia as a counterweight to China.
The trade deal shaped by Wyden required countries signing on to meet higher labor and environmental standards. “I’m not against trade”, Trump has said. The president has worked tirelessly negotiating and then advocating for the agreement. Sure, Terry isn’t on the same page as I am but I’m sick and exhausted of China and other countries manipulating their currencies.
“But when most people think of the adverse effects of trade, they think about those countries”. “And starting today, we are going to do everything we can to make sure that TPP does not come to the floor of Congress during the lame duck session”.
During the Presidential primaries, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders united much of the right and left against the TPP. “There were specific things in it she wants fixed”, he said.
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“She wants to have our backs?”
